Wednesday 4 July 2018

Space Unconsciousness Part I (excerpt)

first published by  The International Writer Association, March 1997
By ESO/DSS 2 (http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1241e/)
[CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Shoes on the grey carpet.
Have we forgotten something in this trip around the solar system?
The ghost of an old man from Iceland was haunting our spaceship.

There's a star shining far before us.
It's bright and has some kind of power over us.
God! Could it be...?

No! We have not raced the Universe
to find out you were just another blank
in nothingness.

It's just another dream
after another scream
before another brand new day.

NB: an edited version of this poem was published in The Centrifugal Eye in June 2012.

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